We are having a Kids on Computers Installfest on Saturday, March 16th in Sherman Oaks, CA from 11AM – 6PM. A local high school in Topanga, California donated 80 laptops they were no longer using to Kids on Computers. We have shipped 20 of these laptops to Colegio Britanico, a …
A small group of volunteers from Kids on Computers returned to Huajuapan de León in October 2012 to update existing school labs, open a new lab, and train teachers. We had great support from the school administrators, teachers, parents, and local volunteers. Schools After spending a few days visiting schools …
At the end of May, five members of the KOC team are heading down to the Huajuapan de Leon area in Oaxaca, Mexico for a KOC Summit. We will be building two new labs at schools in Savcitlan and St. Marco’s. We will meet up with fellow KOC members in …
Hermes and Thomas have been working on the lab in the girls’ boarding school in Santo Domingo, Oaxaca. (Thomas went down a few weeks ago to work on this school in particular.) This is a school for girls that come from difficult homes, all teenagers. They have about 50 students …
Some of you may have noticed that in the previous post there’s a poster with some proprietary office suite software. You may have wondered what it was doing in a school that is using free software? The poster was put up by the lab’s teacher because he wanted to teach …
On September 15 and 16, we set up a computer lab in Tlaxiaco. This center is of special importance, because this lab is to help children with disabilities. This school is a Centro de Atención Múltiple (CAM). In México these centers try to help children with disabilities by providing better …
Over the weekend, Hermes and some of his friends worked on the computers donated by “Caja Popular Mexicana”. From Hermes: Talking with Kees, another volunteer, we decided that the best way to use these computers is with LTSP. The computers are older and many don’t have a hard disk or …
Would you like to help install computers in Mexico or Argentina? We are looking for volunteers to help set up several computer labs. No time? Consider helping out with money for shipping computers. With help from many of you,we set up our first computer lab in a disadvantaged elementary school …
System76 and Kids On Computers team up to prepare computers going to a lab we’re sponsoring in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Computers are due to arrive in June of 2010. Kids On Computers received hardware donations from several high-tech companies in the Colorado area to support this new lab. Around 30 …
Parent support was essential in getting a computer lab set up at the 18 de Marzo elementary school in Huajuapan. 18 de Marzo has a strong PTA that actively supports the school. This woman is responsible for getting the new building set up. The new building houses a computer lab, …
